Esther 5:2 אֶסְתֵּר

Who acts: king, Esther, golden sceptre · What happens: be, see, stand, obtain, hold out, sight · To what, where: Esther, court, favour, sight, golden sceptre, hand

This is Esther 5:2 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Ketuvim — the Writings). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — king, Esther, golden sceptre — and what happens in the verse to Esther, court, favour, sight, golden sceptre, hand, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of the Targum and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 10 chapters of Esther on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

וַיְהִי֩ כִרְא֨וֹת הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ אֶת־אֶסְתֵּ֣ר הַמַּלְכָּ֗ה עֹמֶ֙דֶת֙ בֶּֽחָצֵ֔ר נָשְׂאָ֥ה חֵ֖ן בְּעֵינָ֑יו וַיּ֨וֹשֶׁט הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ לְאֶסְתֵּ֗ר אֶת־שַׁרְבִ֤יט הַזָּהָב֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּיָד֔וֹ וַתִּקְרַ֣ב אֶסְתֵּ֔ר וַתִּגַּ֖ע בְּרֹ֥אשׁ הַשַּׁרְבִֽיט׃ס

And it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, that she obtained favour in his sight; and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that was in his hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre.

The tree

Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation	gloss
1	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	2 יְהִי֩	cc	and
2	יְהִי֩	הָיָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	it was
3	כִ	כְּ	ADP	_	4 רְא֨וֹת	case	just
4	רְא֨וֹת	רָאָה	VERB	HebBinyan=QAL	2 יְהִי֩	advcl	as saw
5	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	6 מֶּ֜לֶךְ	det	the
6	מֶּ֜לֶךְ	מֶלֶךְ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	4 רְא֨וֹת	nsubj	king
7	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	11 עֹמֶ֙דֶת֙	case	(et)
8	אֶסְתֵּ֣ר	אֶסְתֵּר	PROPN	_	11 עֹמֶ֙דֶת֙	nsubj	Esther
9	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	10 מַּלְכָּ֗ה	det	the
10	מַּלְכָּ֗ה	מַלְכָּה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	8 אֶסְתֵּ֣ר	appos	queen
11	עֹמֶ֙דֶת֙	עָמַד	VERB	Gender=Fem HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing	4 רְא֨וֹת	obj	standing
12	בֶּֽ	בְּ	ADP	_	14 חָצֵ֔ר	case	in
13	ה	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	14 חָצֵ֔ר	det	the
14	חָצֵ֔ר	חָצֵר	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 עֹמֶ֙דֶת֙	obl	court
15	נָשְׂאָ֥ה	נָשָׂא	VERB	Gender=Fem HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 יְהִי֩	parataxis	she bore
16	חֵ֖ן	חֵן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	15 נָשְׂאָ֥ה	obj	favor
17	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	18 עֵינָ֑י	case	in
18	עֵינָ֑י	עַיִן	NOUN	Number=Dual	15 נָשְׂאָ֥ה	obl	eyes
19	ו	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 עֵינָ֑י	nmod:poss	his
20	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	21 יּ֨וֹשֶׁט	cc	and
21	יּ֨וֹשֶׁט	יָשַׁט	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=HIPHIL Number=Sing Person=3	2 יְהִי֩	conj	he held out
22	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	23 מֶּ֜לֶךְ	det	the
23	מֶּ֜לֶךְ	מֶלֶךְ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	21 יּ֨וֹשֶׁט	nsubj	king
24	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	25 אֶסְתֵּ֗ר	case	to
25	אֶסְתֵּ֗ר	אֶסְתֵּר	PROPN	_	21 יּ֨וֹשֶׁט	obl	Esther
26	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	27 שַׁרְבִ֤יט	case	(et)
27	שַׁרְבִ֤יט	שַׁרְבִיט	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	21 יּ֨וֹשֶׁט	obj	the scepter
28	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	29 זָּהָב֙	det	of (the)
29	זָּהָב֙	זָהָב	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	27 שַׁרְבִ֤יט	compound:smixut	gold
30	אֲשֶׁ֣ר	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	32 יָד	mark	which
31	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	32 יָד	case	[was] in
32	יָד	יָד	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 שַׁרְבִ֤יט	acl:relcl	hand
33	֔וֹ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 יָד	nmod:poss	his
34	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	35 תִּקְרַ֣ב	cc	and
35	תִּקְרַ֣ב	קָרַב	VERB	Gender=Fem HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 יְהִי֩	conj	she drew near
36	אֶסְתֵּ֔ר	אֶסְתֵּר	PROPN	_	35 תִּקְרַ֣ב	nsubj	Esther
37	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	38 תִּגַּ֖ע	cc	and
38	תִּגַּ֖ע	נָגַע	VERB	Gender=Fem HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 יְהִי֩	conj	she touched
39	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	40 רֹ֥אשׁ	case	(in) the
40	רֹ֥אשׁ	רֹאשׁ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	38 תִּגַּ֖ע	obl	top
41	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	42 שַּׁרְבִֽיט	det	of
42	שַּׁרְבִֽיט	שַׁרְבִיט	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	40 רֹ֥אשׁ	compound:smixut	the scepter
43	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	42 שַּׁרְבִֽיט	punct
44	ס	ס	PUNCT	_	42 שַּׁרְבִֽיט	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
speech: narration
negation: no

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)	who makes it happen (AA)
רְאוֹת as saw	infinitive construct · qal	מֶּלֶךְ king	עֹמֶדֶת standing
עֹמֶדֶת standing	participle active · qal	אֶסְתֵּר Esther
נָשְׂאָה she bore	qatal · qal	אֶסְתֵּר Esther	חֵן favor
יּוֹשֶׁט he held out	wayyiqtol · hiphil	שַׁרְבִיט the scepter		מֶּלֶךְ king
תִּקְרַב she drew near	wayyiqtol · qal	אֶסְתֵּר Esther
תִּגַּע she touched	wayyiqtol · qal	אֶסְתֵּר Esther

MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

The Targum

וַהֲוָה כַּד חֲזָא מַלְכָּא יַת אֶסְתֵּר מַלְכְּתָא קַיְמָא כַּד נְסִיסָא בְּדָרְתָא וְתַרְתֵּין עֵינָהָא זָלְגָן דִמְעִין וּמִסְתַּכְּלָא כְּלַפֵּי שְׁמַיָא מִן יַד אַטְעִינַת רַחֲמִין בְּעֵינוֹי וְאוֹשִׁיט מַלְכָּא לְאֶסְתֵּר יַת תִּגְדָא דְדַהֲבָא דַהֲוָה נָקֵט בִּידֵיהּ וּקְרִיבַת אֶסְתֵּר וּמְטָת לִידָא וַאֲחִידַת בְּרֵישָׁא דְתִגְדָא:

The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

English, JPS 1917

Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. Tree, glosses and frames: MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew, CC BY 4.0; converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). Speech act: Mova's rules on the MACULA words (macula prag). Targum: Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

English: JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence wlc:EST:78.

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